title: [Scanner-guided puncture biopsy of a lesion occupying the pterygo-maxillary fossa].
abstract: A 26-year old male patient was referred to us for impaired mouth opening. Actually, Mr. B. has been followed up for SADAM for 2 years at different hospital services. In view of the ineffectiveness of the treatments administered (occlusal releasing gutter, antiinflammatory agents) and due to occurrence of severe episodes of earache refractory to conventional analgesics, we request that a CT-scan be obtained to evidence the process invading the pterygopalatine fossa. ENT examination and scanner-guided needle biopsy are performed to enable anatomopathological analysis and diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Service de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale, Hôpital Saint Joseph, 7, Paris.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kuntz
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Granat
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coupez
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Princ
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008441:Maxillary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013100:Sphenoid Bone; D013706:Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Ponction biopsie guidée sous scanner d'un processus occupant la fosse ptérygo-maxillaire.